Space infrastructure now underpins communications, navigation, intelligence, security, and economic resilience around the world.
This campaign examines how governments and commercial partners are strengthening operational resilience in an increasingly contested and strategically important domain.
Podcast: Collateral Risk, Episode 5: Partnership and Risk
China’s commercial space sector has expanded rapidly since 2014, while its legal and regulatory infrastructure continues to develop across agencies and jurisdictions.
In Collateral Risk, Episode 5, Tamara Bond-Williams talks with Fuhua Ni, founding and managing partner of Shanghai Zenith Law Firm, about the commercial opportunity, the regulatory friction, and the practical work required to build cross-border partnerships.
Fuhua explains how his international commercial-law practice led him into space law. He discusses fragmented regulation, dual-use technology, ITAR, EAR, and the Wolf Amendment, along with a proposed CSIS report on possible areas of US–China cooperation.
The conversation also looks at the development of an SSPI China chapter and the role a professional network can play in creating durable industry relationships.
We hope you’ll listen and share the episode with colleagues working across commercial space, policy, law, and international business.
New York Space Business Roundtable: The Industrial Base Behind the Defense of Space
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Defense of space depends on an industrial base that can manufacture, finance, insure, buy, integrate, and sustain capability at speed.
In The Industrial Base Behind Defense of Space, Tamara Bond-Williams convenes an in-person New York Space Business Roundtable with Zack Hester of Novaspace, Quadri Bello of Empire Space, Col. Tim Trimailo of the U.S. Space Force Commercial Space Office, David Myers of Applied Aerospace and Defense, Chris Kunstadter of Triton Space, and Dara Panahy of Milbank.
Their conversation follows the pressure points that determine whether a mission can move from contract to production: supplier capacity, ground systems, commercial acquisition, insurance, private capital, contracting, manufacturing readiness, and the workforce that ties every layer together.
Podcast: Collateral Risk, Episode 3: Sovereignty & Self-Sufficiency
Europe cannot secure its space capabilities by owning every satellite, launch vehicle, ground station, and data center. So what should sovereignty mean now?
In Episode 3 of Collateral Risk, SSPI Executive Director Tamara Bond-Williams speaks with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Chiara Manfletti, CEO of Neuraspace, about why the civil-military boundary in space is fading; why protecting a satellite is not enough; and how modular sovereignty can strengthen Europe's freedom to act.
They discuss the full space-service chain, the roles of primes, startups, universities, and agencies, and why government procurement must create market pull for resilient commercial services.
SSPI-WISE Panel: Defense of Space: Building Resilience at Every Layer
Space resilience is not built at one layer. It depends on what happens in orbit, on the ground, across data and communications systems, between government and commercial partners, and among the people responsible for every mission.
In Defense of Space: Building Resilience at Every Layer, moderator Katina Mruk is joined by Jennifer Jeffries, Darren McKnight, and Ambericent "Amber" Cornett for a wide-ranging conversation on persistent orbital intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum, commercial-military integration, information sharing, policy, culture, and trust.
Originally presented as an SSPI-WISE All-Members Meeting, the conversation asks what it will take to move commercial integration from "backup plan" to foundational capability - and why the hardest barriers may be cultural rather than technical.
Podcast: Collateral Risk, Episode 1: Who Ultimately Bears the Risk?
Commercial satellites now support civilian life, global commerce, humanitarian work - and, in some cases, military operations. When those roles overlap, who ultimately bears the risk?
In the launch episode of Collateral Risk, SSPI Executive Director Tamara Bond-Williams speaks with Dr. Jessica West, Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares, about the civilian consequences of disruption in space; why dual use is not one simple category; and the decisions companies and governments should settle before a crisis.
They discuss commercial obligations, government responsibility, contracts, information sharing, the Outer Space Treaty, UNOOSA, and debris prevention.
